Metaceratodus kaopen
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetaceratodusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Metaceratodus kaopen on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
- Lago Colhué Huapi Formation · Chubut Group1
- Bajo de la Carpa Formation · Neuquén Group1
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The named rock units Metaceratodus kaopen has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metaceratodus kaopen and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Metaceratodus kaopen and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Achillesaurus manazzonei1 site
- Aeolosaurus colhuehuapensis1 site
- Baurusuchidae1 site
- Colhuehuapisuchus lunai1 site
- Comahuesuchus brachybuccalis1 site
- Furileusauria1 site
- Megaraptoridae1 site
- Sektensaurus sanjuanboscoi1 site
- Velocisaurus unicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Metaceratodus kaopen, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- First record of a lungfish (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) in the Upper Cretaceous of the Chubut Group, Golfo San Jorge Basin, Argentina. paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic considerations1
- Metaceratodus kaopen comb. nov. and M. wichmanni comb. nov., two Late Cretaceous South American species of an austral lungfish genus (Dipnoi)1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMetaceratodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Apesteguia et al. 2007)